 The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention ; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever...  Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 381by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Morgan Dix - Women - 1883 - 196 pages
...inner. No art or skill can change that relation to the world in which they live. To quote again : " The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest. . . . The man's work for his home is, to secure its maintenance, progress, and defense. The man's duty,... | |
 | Morgan Dix - Women - 1883 - 194 pages
...change that relation to the world in which they live. To quote again : " The man's power is act- ' ive, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer,...his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest. . . . The man's work for his home is, to secure its maintenance, progress, and defense. The man's duty,... | |
 | 1884 - 616 pages
...the same education as a man.' ' But what is public life ? ' said Sneyd, ' and why shouldn't woman * 'The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....and her intellect is not for invention or creation, hut for sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision. She sees the qualities of things, their claims,... | |
 | 1884 - 628 pages
...same education as a man.' ' But what is public life ? ' said Sneyd, ' and why shouldn't woman » ' The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....and her intellect is not for invention or creation, hut for sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision. She sees the qualities of things, their claims,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1884 - 434 pages
...what the other only can give. Now their separate characters are briefly these: * Coventry Patmore. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle,—and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement,... | |
 | Morgan Dix - Women - 1884 - 170 pages
...inner. No art or skill can change that relation to the world in which they live. To quote again: " The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest. . . . The man's work for his home is, to secure its maintenance, progress, and defence. The man's duty,... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1885 - 388 pages
...was able to keep what she acquired. EXERCISE CCXIII. Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, whereever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 908 pages
...receiving from the other what the other only can give. Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever ponquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, — and her intellect is not... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 942 pages
...from the other what the other | only can give. 68. Now their separate characters are briefly thesa. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the delender. His intellect is for speculation and invention ; his energy for adventure, for war, and for... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1893 - 242 pages
...Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power is active, progressive, de fensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer,...his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, whenever war is just, whenever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle... | |
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